Design Working Group Idea: Reviewing the Platform End-to-End

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Hey everyone,

The Design Working Group is thinking about using some of our session time to start reviewing the platform from end-to-end, from the learner, to instructor, to admin experience.

It feels like this could really help us, as designers, build a stronger shared understanding of how everything fits together, what’s already there, how things work, and where patterns align or diverge.

I’m imagining a recurring segment in our DWG meetings (once a month) where we do a short walkthrough of one piece of the platform, just enough to explore, reflect, and learn together.

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What do you think?

If you’d like to hear more before voting below, I’ll be discussing this idea briefly at our next Design Working Group session on November 6, 2025.

  • Yes, let’s make this a recurring segment!
  • Maybe, I’ll join the session to hear more first.
  • No, I feel confident in my knowledge of the platform design.
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If we gather enough interest, we’ll decide together which areas of the platform to review first.

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Strongly in support of this idea!! I’d love to link this to the shared authoring proposal I’ve been working on: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AgCyKwE

We can use some of these Figma design files (especially the shared authoring, instructor, mobile, and learner files) as a place to document existing collateral, and I’d love to start proposing design improvements directly within these files. We may be able to restructure them to better support this use case, and I’m happy to devote CC time to that!

I’d also love to support building out product/design overlap collateral that documents the set of supported platform objects, actions, and edit views in flow diagram form.

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Could we use this process to better document the platform? I understand that these sessions would help the group gain insights about the platform, but can we also use these sessions to generate sustainable information for other contributors? I’d suggest to just throw some AI at this: record meetings, have an AI agent recap those notes, use these notes to improve the platform documentation.

(This is probably easier said than done though!)

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I love this idea @Cassie. Thank you! Please let me know if I can help in any way.

In the future I’d also love for the Design WG to find other ways of evaluating the platform holistically to improve consistency across experience verticals, ie: spacing, information architecture, etc.

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